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...young Communists up front yelled the old revolutionary slogan: "Aux barricades!" Demonstrators grabbed wooden trestles placed along the sidewalks to contain the crowds and laid them across the road. Iron chairs from Fouquet's and other open-air cafes were added. Paving stones were ripped up. Soon a stout barricade was built. The police did not move...
Second-grade pupils were learning a poem which summed up much of Western Germany's mood: "Speckled autumn moves through the country with long steps and mighty hand. It bends the slender trees and it rustles the stout ones. Then the ripe apples and pears and apricots come tumbling down. The boys and girls shout: 'Hurrah, Uncle Autumn is here...
...plan was devised last March. Communist delegates attended a "Southeast Asia Youth Conference" in Calcutta. A planeload of experts from Moscow came to give them their orders. Representing Burma was stout, 30-year-old Hari Narayan Goshal. From Malaya came Chinese Communist Lee Soong and from Australia, Laurence Sharkey, who flew back to Singapore with Lee for a two-week stay after the conference...
From cover to hemline, the stylish-stout Journal has become something that Editor Edward Bok, who died in 1930, would barely recognize as his baby. Last year, it did more business than the next two women's magazines, Good Housekeeping and McCall's, combined. At a quarter a copy, circulation is a booming 4,520,982, three-quarters of a million over Crowell-Collier's second-place Woman's Home Companion...
...Editor Stout, once fashion editor of Good Housekeeping, had worked on new magazines before: she was one of three researchers on year-old TIME in 1924. When Kaleidoscope first approached her, she turned it down cold "because they were attempting the impossible." Then she decided to try the impossible. She spent her first three weeks getting together a staff, mostly from retail stores. From June 21, when the first color pictures were taken, until last week, Kaleidoscope's Chrysler Building offices were a mad henhouse. Typical of the fast & furious work was a 24-page portfolio of Paris clothes...